Capitolo 16
it happens to have lived in their country they are used in. The others
it is British and necessary to the salvation. That feeling is instinctive
in the completely nature English and provincial. Any English never
it really grabs for him the simple fact what England is a foreigner
country to foreigners; if to extraneous it happens to appear
ignorant of some small matter in the life English, he concerns, them
ignorance as I shock and childish, not to be comparative for a moment to
his really natural unfamiliarity with the absurd practices of foreigner
nations.
The Alien ones, seemed indeed to have learned in advance this curious
the particularity of the intellect English and limited; for him it blushed
slightly as him he/she answered, "I know Your currency as a matter of
the arithmetic, clearly: twelve pences ago a shilling; winds
shillings make a pound--"
"Clearly", Phillip echoed in a tone of the perfect sentence; it
you/he/she would never be happened to him to doubt for a moment that
each intuitively knew that elements of mendicant of the they inhaled
British monetary System.
"Although they is singly awkward unity of value for some one
accustomed to a decimal coinage: so unreasonable and illogical,"
the extraneous one kindly continued, while turning on the various pieces
with an equivocal air of you distrust of and the uncertainty.
"I Implore Your pardon", it said Phillip, while stretching himself/herself/itself very rigid,
and as soon as able to believe his/her ears (he was an officer of You
The Government of Majesty of Britannic, and not used to such swearword). "Face
I understand her to say, you consider pounds, shillings and pence
UNREASONABLE?"
He put an emphasis on the last word that would fairly have struck
terror to the breast of the extraneous one; but somehow it didn't do. "Because,
yes", the Alien ones followed with imperturbable gentleness: "any order or
principle, you know. No rational connection. A mere survival from
I use Barbaric. A result and a dozen. The result is a man ten,
fingers and ten fingers of the foot; the dozen is a man with shoes on--the fingers